Static Specialist Physiotherapist

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced, dynamic and enthusiastic physiotherapist to undertake the role of a static Band 6 Physiotherapist working at the NRU at Royal Preston Hospital. Our 16-bedded inpatient neuro-rehab unit based at Royal Preston Hospital is a regional centre - providing specialist rehabilitation for patients across Lancashire and South Cumbria. We are looking for a passionate, motivated and caring physiotherapist who has experience in neurological assessment, treatment and discharge planning. You will work in a friendly and supportive integrated Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy team, which is part of a large multi-disciplinary team providing diverse rehab for patients with complex neurological care needs. Follow us on Twitter @NRU_LTHTR. You should have clinical experience of working with patients who have complex neurological impairment, and have clinical reasoning skills that allow you to provide individualised assessment and treatment of complex movement problems. LTHTR is a regional centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, a Major Trauma Centre and has recently welcomed a newly expanded Critical Care Unit. You will work with patients of varying ages and backgrounds that have experienced life-changing neurological illness or injury. Common conditions include Traumatic Brain Injury, Hypoxic Brain Injury, Encephalitis, Spinal Cord Injury and Guillian-Barre Syndrome. As a physiotherapy team we follow a Bobathcentred approach to rehabilitation aiming to treat every patient as an individual using normal movement knowledge, therapeutic handlingskills and specialist treatment skills. Alongside developing specialist clinical rehab skills there will be the opportunity to attend courses (both internally and externally) to develop your skills further. Your role will involve leading patient goal setting meetings, discharge planning and working closely with other health professionals both within and outside of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust. We are a well-established and supportive MDT including Speech Therapists, Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine and Neuropsychologists. We also regularly work with other professionals such as Orthoptists and Orthotists to provide our patients' holistic care. We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5million people across Lancashire and South Cumbria. Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients and staff. Ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns. You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people and do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills and enhance your career path. You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which in your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of. Our ethos at the NRU is very much focussed on empowering staff to undertake leadership at all levels, and to continually develop services to improve quality of care to patients throughout their rehab journey. From a leadership and management perspective your role will allow opportunity to lead service developments and implement quality improvement projects, whilst also supporting team members' development through supervision, appraisal and mentorship. There is an expectation that you will participate in provision of training to the wider MDT and acute teams for example therapeutic moving and handling training and rehab training programme. Alongside the day-to-day leadership and management tasks you will also have the opportunity to undertake formal training to develop your leadership and management skills. Each day working at the NRU is different to the next and you will be supported by a friendly team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists and therapy assistants along the way! To directly support the delivery of therapy to patients

• Management of own caseload and prioritisation based on clinical need, and support for others to do the same
• Assessment, differential diagnosis, clinicalreasoning and analysis recorded clearly in patients notes
• Reasoned treatment and management plans recorded in patient notes
• Delivery of a wide range of specialist treatment and management options to meet patients complex clinical need
• Demonstrate a high level of assessment and treatment physical skills in the application of Physiotherapy approaches (therapeutic handling)
To provide leadership and management support
• Deputisation for the therapy team leads in their absence or in delegated areas of responsibility
To support personal and people development
• Own appraisal and Personal Development Plans are completed as per Trust Policy including the development of achievement of rotational objectives
• Appraisal of named members of the team as per Trust Policy and schedule
• Demonstration of a commitment to independent learning including an up to date knowledge of professional practice
• Demonstration of high levels of skills and knowledge in specialist area through support for other team members development
• Supervision of and support for the training and education of therapists, assistants and undergraduate therapists
To communicate and collaborate with all Integrated Therapies Service (ITS) stakeholders
• Effective communication of sometimes distressing information to patients and carers concerning diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plans
• Effective verbal and non-verbal communication within the wider MDT
• Effective communication with external agencies
• Deals with emotional and distressing circumstances
• Attendance at staff and other service meetings
To support service development and planning
• Support the Therapy lead in the planning and day to day organisation of service provision within the clinical area including that for the prioritisation and assessment of assistant and therapists workloads.
• Ideas are contributed to support service development and improvement
• Active participation in team and service developments
• Deputisation for the therapy team leads in their absence or in delegated areas of responsibility
To help to ensure the health, safety and security of users of the ITS, self and colleagues
• Participation in Service and Trust mandatory training schedule
• Awareness of and adherence to Service and Trust Policies and Procedures
• Implementation of Trust Infection Control procedures including support for implementation within the team
• Competence in the safe use of therapy equipment and delivery of training to other members of the team in the safe use of therapy equipment
• Management of clinical and physical risk within own patient caseloadand support provided for other therapy staff and students to do so
• Timely reporting of adverse occurrences via Datix
• First line resolution of complaints and information gathering for formal complaint responses
• Maintenance of HCPC registration
• Practice within CSP Scope of Practice and Professional Code of Conduct
To support the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda within the ITS
• Active participation in Service Clinical Governance groups
• Demonstration of clinical, professional and legal responsibility for patient care within scope of practice
• Identification of audit topics, completion of same and support for other audit and research activities within the team and wider service as appropriate.
• Presentation of audit findings and action plans to the team and wider as appropriate
• Evidence of support for the development and implementation of local and national clinical guidelines within the team and the wider service as appropriate.
To support equality of opportunity and access within the ITS for both staff and patients.
• Knowledge of personal responsibilities related to Equality and Diversity (E&D) and support for others to do the same
• Recognition of cultural, social and other issues and how they can be incorporated into treatment plans
• Reporting of incidents which potentially breach E&D legislation/ Policies